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Eva Mendes

Eva de la Caridad Méndez (born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes (/ˈmɛndɛz/), is an American actress, model and businesswoman. Her acting career began in the late 1990s, with a series of roles in B films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000). Mendes's performance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career, and led to parts in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005), the latter of which made her one of the first minority actors to play the lead in a mainstream romantic comedy. She starred in Ghost Rider (2007) and The Spirit (2008), both film adaptations of comics, and ventured into more dramatic territory with We Own the Night (2007), Bad Lieutenant (2009), Last Night (2010), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). Her other films include Out of Time (2003), The Women (2008), The Other Guys (2010), and Girl in Progress (2012).

Mendes starred opposite Steven Seagal in the action thriller Exit Wounds (2001), which made over US$73 million worldwide.[11] According to Mendes, her voice was dubbed in the editing, with a producer telling her that she "didn’t sound intelligent enough".[12] Her breakthrough though came later in 2001 with her performance as the mistress of a corrupt cop in Antoine Fuqua's crime thriller Training Day, alongside Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.[13] She described her role as "privotal" in her career, stating that it motivated her to keep going as an actress, as she was "bored" doing "terrible cheesy horrible" films before she obtained it.[14]Training Day was a box office hit, grossing US$104.5 million.[15]

Mendes reunited with Danzel Washington for the thriller Out of Time, in which she played the soon-to-be ex-wife of a well-respected chief of police. The film was a moderate commercial success,[18] and Roger Ebert, in his review for the film, described Mendes' role as a "curiously forgiving character, who feels little rancor for the straying [husband] and apparently still likes him; maybe there would have been more suspense if she were furious with him".[19] Her last 2003 film was the comedy Stuck on You, with Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, in which she played an aspiring actress. She starred with Will Smith, as the love interest of a professional dating consultant, in her next film, Hitch (2005), making her one of the first minority actors to play the lead in a mainstream romantic comedy.[9]USA Today described it as "her best screen role to date",[20] and Detroit Free Press remarked: "Smith and Mendes are terrific together. He brings her game up so high you'd think she has had as many good parts as Smith".[21]Hitch was the highest-grossing comedy in North America until 2018, and made US$368.1 million in its global theatrical run.[22] In 2005, Mendes also starred in the little-seen films The Wendell Baker Story and Guilty Hearts.

Recent roles and hiatus (2010s)

Mendes reunited with previous collaborators Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg for the action comedy The Other Guys (2010), in which she portrayed the wife of a mild-mannered forensic NYPD accountant (Farrell).[30] It was a commercial success, grossing US$170.4 million globally.[31] In 2010, she also played the co-worker and the love interest of a committed man in Massy Tadjedin's romantic drama Last Night, alongside Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington.[32] While she was initially reluctant to star, worrying that the character would "lack originality" and was "too seductive", she agreed to play the role after meeting with Tadjedin; she said: "It was great to connect with a female director and talk about this woman and not objectify her as the other woman but give her a real true life and make her honest[...]. Thank God I did."[33][34]

In 2005, Mendes was employed by Revlon as an international spokesperson, and participated in their campaign to raise funds for breast cancer research.[43] In December 2007, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) used a nude photo of Mendes for their anti-fur campaign.[44][45] Mendes was a spokesmodel for the 2008 Campari calendar,[46] and in July 2008, she was announced as the international face of Australia's 30 Days of Fashion & Beauty event. She made guest appearances in that country at the month-long festival in September.[47] She also appeared nude in a 2008 print advertisement for Calvin Klein's Secret Obsession perfume, an ad which was banned in the United States.[48]

Fashion designing

Mendes has a line of bed linens and dinnerware that is sold at Macy's.[56][57] In February 2013, she partnered with New York & Co. to launch her own fashion line, Eva by Eva Mendes.[58] She is also the creative director of the makeup brand CIRCA Beauty, which launched exclusively at Walgreens in 2015.[59][60][61]

Singing

In 2010, Mendes sang on "Pimps Don't Cry," a song featured in The Other Guys,[62] and performed a duet with CeeLo Green on "Pimps Don't Cry."[63] In 2011, she recorded a version of "The Windmills of Your Mind."[64]. She also featured in the single "Miami" sang by Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, which was released in May 1991.

Public image

Mendes in 2011

Mendes' public image is strongly tied to her perceived beauty and sex appeal. Many media outlets have cited her as one of the world's most beautiful Latin women, and she has been often considered a sex symbol.[65] She once embraced that status, saying it was "partially self-created [...] I think at times I play up my sexiness. And there's times where I don't",[66] though she does not let it to interfere with her film work: "I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane".[67] Her professional trajectory throughout the 2000s, nevertheless, tended to gravitate towards parts that relied heavily on her looks.[35]

Mendes ranked 54th, 12th, 7th, 7th, and 11th in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 issue in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2010 respectively,[68][69] and appeared several times on the cover.[70] She also ranked 80th, 23rd and 44th in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" supplement in 2004, 2005, 2006.[71] She was voted number four in the 2008 edition, and number one in the 2009 edition, of AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women.[72]People also named her one of 2012's Most Beautiful at Every Age.[73]

Personal life

Mendes was in a relationship with filmmaker George Augusto from 2002 to 2010.

In 2011, she began dating Ryan Gosling, whom she met on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines, in which they both starred. The couple have two daughters. Their first was born in September 2014[74][75][76] and their second was born in April 2016.[77]